The Ultimate Archer's Shelter? Meet the Klumpen
It's April. You're standing in a field somewhere in central Scotland. The wind is doing that particular Scottish thing where it can't decide if it wants to come from the north or the east,...
Author: Glasgow Archers
When your Bow Decides it’s had Enough
Archery kit is, in theory, pretty resilient. It has to be, given we insist on bending it, unbending it, and rattling it 200 times a night like it owes us money. Every shot loads...
Gossip behind the Tent Line: The Cost of Missing
A few weeks ago we had an article on the big indoor competition - Las Vegas 2026. We noted the fact that last year there was, over the weekend, $30,000 dollars of damage done...
72" Bows: Because some Archers are built different
The modern recurve bow is a miracle of configuration options. You can bolt so many accessories onto a riser that it starts to resemble a cyberpunk coat rack. Sights, buttons, rests, stabilisers, dampers, clickers,...
Music to Shoot by
Within the universal set, archery intersects with so many things. Archery and dedication. Archery and health. Archery and banter. Archery and obsessive compulsion .. the intersections are endless. But one intersection you never see...
All a Bit Mental?
Apparently today, Monday 30 March, is World Bipolar Day. I’m not someone who usually bothers with the plethora of ‘Days’ that there are for this or that, but as I’m an archer and someone...
Road to Merlin
With the recent opening of Merlin in Glenrothes, Scotland now has access to a major archery supplier on its doorstep. Until now, our closest store was Merlin in Bishops Auckland which meant a 332...
Summer Season 2026
Looking outside at some of the weather we're currently suffering, its hard to believe we're just TWO WEEKS away from going outside for the "Summer" season. As of April, the outdoors of Whitecraigs beckons...
Vegas 2026
The Vegas Shoot is arguably the largest and most prestigious indoor archery tournament in the world. Taking place currently in March each year in the city of Las Vegas, its a competition where anything...
Cresting Arrows
One of the great things about making your own arrows is personalizing them. There's so many ways to stamp your personality on your HIT-iles (they aren't MISS-iles now are they ;o). Fletching is the...
Dealing with Adversity
Adversity is never very far from your archery especially in competition. In practice you have time to fix things but in competition ... not so much. You've prepped for a shoot. You've got your...
Medieval Glue
A couple of weeks ago we published an article on fletching glues including superglue, rubber based glue and fletching tape. But how did our archer ancestors get their feathers to stay stuck to their...
Trading Cards for Archers
People collect stuff. This is probably down to shared ancestry. 150 million years ago (somewhere between the late Triassic and early Jurassic period), we share an ancestor with squirrels. Probably as a consequence, we...
Innumeracy in Archers
Arithmetic is where numbers fly, like pigeons, in and out of your head - Carl Sandburg Archery is fantastic for improving yourself physically and mentally. For physical activity it engages the arms, shoulders, back,...
Fletching Glue
A significant amount of time is spend by archers fletching and refletching arrows. Its like painting the Forth Rail Bridge or pushing a boulder up a mountain for eternity .. except more frustrating at...
Are Bows Electric?
Since the turn of the millennium, electronics and microchips have found their way into everything. Cookers, fridges, tv's, electric toothbrushes rigged for WiFi .. even the humble toaster* can come with as much processing...
Parallel Pro .. Take two
Not that long ago we wrote an article on the latest target arrow to come out of everyone's fav purveyors of aluminium and carbon products. No, not Tesla .. Easton. The arrow was the...
Gossip behind the Tent Line: Looking good for the Olympics
The following article is based on an interview of UK international compounder Ella Gibson by Greg Poole of BowJunky media. We'll be quoting Ella's own words about this situation and this formidable archer does...
Show Me? Show You!
There are veritable oceans of bushwah (Noun, North American informal: rubbish or nonsense) floating around in archery, especially in equipment. Advice is bandied about without consideration of who it applies to. Ask an elite...
